”Creative honesty”… that’s it, Harry. Like you, the grammar police can often have a field day with my work. A lot of writers have degrees in English Literature and the like, and I have nothing other than high school English and a burning desire to write.
Your writing captures the reader from the very first word, and doesn’t let up until the end (which is usually a surprise too.) There is sometimes a brutal realism in your writing that many writers lack, but whatever it is you will always have me as a reader here.